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Pauraque 3

Behind concepts, there are many complex assumptions.

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Pauraque 4

Drawing in progress, ink on paper.

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Río Bravo del Norte

Common Pauraque sketches, ink on paper. The Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival ended, taking with it new friends and birding company and its hum of vendors and activities, vaporizing in a palpable...

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Upon Looking for Something Else

Olive Sparrows are not exactly what I have previously assumed them to be. They are largish and distinctly, er, rotund. Their bills are also longer than I had realized. Except for exquisite and subtle...

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Happy Holidays, Southeast Arizona style.

To everyone, old friends and new, I would like to express my most sincere gratitude that I have had such rare opportunities to know you and be a part of your lives.

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Roadrunner, roadrunner…

I have traveled 5,537 miles in 60 days, birded 6 states, seen 289 trip species, gotten 8 lifers, and have met and seen an unquantifiable number of amazing people. Happy New Year!!!

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Bedrock, and a Barred Owl

They are beautiful, those Texas trees, that Texas light. Eastern Texas – not Gulf Coastal Eastern Texas, not Piney Woods Eastern Texas, not Hill Country Texas, but the middle of cow country near...

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Lists, pt. 1

Traversing the country, drawing lines of a sort and making scrawls on a geography vast enough to spur both awe and despair, I have been keeping lists. This is a Big Year. It is not a year in which I...

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White-crowned Sparrow, part 1

Top image: Four studies of an immature White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys, probably subspecies gambelii). Watercolor, gouache, and pencil on tan paper, 11 x 7.5″, 2011. Bottom image: detail...

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White-crowned Sparrow, part 2

Adult White-crowned Sparrow studies (Zonotrichia leucophrys leucophrys). Watercolor, gouache, and ink on tan paper, 11 x 7.5″, 2011.

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